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by Deborah Tolman and Bridget Woods In 2019, we here at SexGenLab.org created a toolkit to answer the question: “ Why is Everyone So Upset about Gender ? Deb’s father, then an 80-year retired doctor, asked this question; he was really puzzled by all the fuss about athletes’ “true sex.” Castor Semenya, an Olympic gold-medalist runner, was under intense scrutiny and subjected to invasive sex testing to “evaluate” her gender. A desperate need to know how to categorize her and h

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Dr. Sam Majic, professor of Political Science at CUNY John Jay College, discusses the current landscape for sex workers in the legal field, as well as how the shift to online sex work has opened up new challenges for workers.

Jinsun Yang, a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Oregon, helps us parse through gendered sports policies and how the Queer Women Games in Korea might offer us a different perspective on divisions within sports competitions.

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by Deborah L. Tolman, Hunter Kincaid, Bridget Woods, Jennifer Chmielewski and Anthony Freeman The US is finally starting to have a real conversation about racial (in)justice. In this TookKit, we present research to explain, debunk and complicate racist gender stereotypes about Black Americans, focusing on how they are utilized and perpetuated by research on Black masculinity and femininity, revealing how they impact Black women and men, whether they are cisgender or transgen

By Tabassum Shama The Strong Black Woman (SBW) schema is the role of invincibility that black women take up both voluntarily and involuntarily. Black women are taught from a young age to do everything by themselves (and for others). Historically, from the time of slavery, Black women were seen in the same light as Black men (needing to carry out a masculine role), and due to the current and continued “oppressive and limited socioeconomic mobility” of Black men, Black women ar

By Marisa Ragonese I had a baby three summers ago, and she’s been hanging around me a lot ever since. One of the best parts about this...

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By Allison Cabana *From the SPARK Research! Blog Archive: This blog was originally written for SPARK, a girl-fueled organization...

By Jessica Lin Women are nurturing and men are assertive – at least, that is what society teaches us. Even with more women in leadership...

By Laura Hooberman In mid-October of this year, the conservative blog Red State leaked intimate photos and text messages exchanged between Katie Hill, the freshman Democratic representative from California’s 25th district, and one of her campaign aides. The public discourse in the wake of this scandal could have focused on any one of these issues: 1) the exploitative, gross, and potentially illegal invasion of privacy enacted by Red State in distributing private photographs

By Marisa Ragonese *From the SPARK Research! Blog Archive: This blog was originally written for SPARK, a girl-fueled...

By Laura Hooberman On September 19th, The Washington Post reported that United States Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson had, in an internal meeting, expressed concern about “big hairy men” infiltrating women’s homeless shelters. Carson later, bizarrely, doubled down on his comment, insisting the remark was not – and to be clear, it absolutely is – transphobic. What’s striking about this instance, besides the fact that it adds yet another episode to

Drs. Sari van Anders and Moya Bailey discuss the science behind the Caster Semenya controversy and the reasons why Caster has been targeted. #genderbinary #sex #testosterone #athletes #Video #gender

Gender has gotten complicated. It turns out that the seemingly straightforward categories of male/female, woman/man, masculinity / femininity are in fact not so clear cut, as shown by new concepts, such as gender identity , cisgender , transgender or trans , gender non-conforming . Think about how uncomfortable so many people are when they cannot determine a person’s gender .[1] So when gender lines blur, people have strong reactions and feelings, but policies, laws and so

By Jenn Chmielewski *From the SPARK Research! Blog Archive: This blog was originally written for SPARK, a girl-fueled organization...